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A woman wanted by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office for her suspected involvement in a February robbery was caught in Miami-Dade County Saturday, according to deputies. Maria Restrepo, 55, is accused of robbing a woman in February on Lakewood Road in Lake Worth. Deputies said she stopped a woman who was walking home and told her that she had just won the lottery, but wanted help cashing the ticket because she was an "undocumented Hispanic," according to a Sheriff's Office news release. An unknown man approached the two and said he knew an attorney who could help, according to the release. The victim said she didn't want to help them and tried to leave. The...

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A woman wanted by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office for her suspected involvement in a February robbery was caught in Miami-Dade County Saturday, according to deputies.Maria Restrepo, 55, is accused of robbing a woman in February on Lakewood Road...

Deputies have arrested the 17-year-old caretaker after a toddler was found wandering in West Palm Beach, without shoes or a shirt and wearing a soiled diaper.The boy was found along a road in the Victoria Woods subdivision at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday,...

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue Officials said they are searching for a man they believe jumped off the Lake Worth Bridge into the Intracoastal. Officials said a witness saw the man jump from the apex of the bridge just before 8 p.m. Saturday. The Palm...

A West Boca man was arrested Thursday for DUI after getting involved in a crash that seriously injured another driver, according to deputies.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Travis Streitz, 29, ran a red light just before 6 a.m. on Aug. 2 at...

Two men pulled a gun on their neighbor, according to deputies, and taunted him with it before returning to their house.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Mac Lormeus, 19, and Roody Joachim, 21, came up to their neighbor's yard at about 8 p.m....

A Royal Palm Beach woman was arrested Thursday on animal cruelty charges after deputies said they found her horse emaciated and the condition of her barn poor.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said they got a call on July 20 about a horse that had...

A man who stole a gun from a Boynton Beach store was caught by surveillance cameras in the act and arrested Wednesday, according to police.Police said they got a call on Oct. 4 about a stolen gun from Love's Auto Brokers, 3020 SW 14th Place, in Boynton...

A pizza delivery driver was charged with two felonies Wednesday after he changed the tip on his receipt from $7 to $10, according to deputies.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said they got a call from a manager at Grandma's Brooklyn Pizza, 10045...

A Wellington family hired a couple to clean their house, but instead the couple cleaned out the family's jewelry box, deputies said.According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Juan Quiles, 55, and Angela Mullis, 49, were arrested on...

A West Boca man died Tuesday when he lost control of the car he was driving and crashed into a tree, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
The crash happened at 11:35 p.m. just west of the intersection of Palmetto Park Road and Toledo...

A man was arrested Monday after deputies said he shot into a car that had a woman and two children inside, according to an arrest report.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said they got a call just before 5 p.m. about a shooting in the 4800 block of...

A man was arrested Friday after deputies said he stole a woman's checks and her one-of-a-kind European silverware set, according to an arrest report.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said a 59-year-old woman called on Oct. 1 saying a few of her...

A man and his 14-year-old stepdaughter were shot at after they visited a suspected drug dealer unannounced, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.Deputies said the 35-year-old man and his stepdaughter went to visit his friend, who also...

He was supposed to be selling his wares to local businesses, deputies said, but instead he was selling it to pawn shops.According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, deputies arrested Gregg Sulkin, a traveling jewelry salesman based in Palm Beach...

Two new designer drugs have popped up on South Florida streets this year.Both have dangerous side effects.Both have something else in common:They're being used in e-cigarettes, once peddled as asaferalternative to tobacco...

John Goodman's highly-anticipated DUI manslaughter retrial started Saturday in a near empty Palm Beach County courtroom, with attention shifting quickly from the unusual selection of jurors in Tampa to a sharper focus on what the panel will see and hear...

A deputy shot the driver of a stolen Volvo in West Palm Beach on Friday when the driver allegedly tried to run the deputy over during a traffic stop, the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office said.The wounded driver, Joshua Jett, 28, faces charges of aggravated...

A convicted felon was arrested after he sped away from deputies in suburban Riviera Beach while driving a stolen car.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said they tried to pull over a car just after 8 p.m. Thursday on Martin Luther King Boulevard in...

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said on Thursday they've arrested at least one of the two juveniles involved in a May arson.Deputies said the juvenile, who was 16 when the fire occurred but is now 17, is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail...

A Royal Palm man has been arrested on a hit-and-run charge — accused of driving his girlfriend away from a crash site after she allegedly caused a wreck, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.Authorities say Isaiah Sterling's girlfriend was behind...